Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
0716
Record number:
0716-3
JCB call number:
B622 H564n2 / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Descripçion de las Yndias del Norte
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Michiel Colijn]
Image date:
[1622]
Image function:
map 2; following leaf 3
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
21.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
29.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
36.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
44.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
Map of North America, including Central America and the northern part of South America. Also includes Caribbean islands. Cartographic elements include degrees of latitude (including the Tropic of Cancer) and longitude, and location of the audiencias of Nueva Galicia [New Galicia], Guatemala, Espanola, and Nueva España [New Spain].
Source creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d.1625
Source Title:
[Descripción de las India Occidentalis. Latin] Novus Orbis, sive Descriptio Indiae occidentalis
Source place of publication:
Amstelodami [Amsterdam]
Source publisher:
Apud Michaelem Cohinium Bibliopolam, ad insigne Libri Domestici
Source date:
[M. D. C. XXII. [1622]
notes:
The maps in this book were copied from the manuscript maps of Juan López de Velasco and expanded by Herrera y Tordesillas.
Time Period:
1601-1650
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
geographic area:
Guianas; Caribbean Islands; North America; Spanish America
Subject headings:
Caribbean area--Maps; North America--Maps; South America--Maps
References:
Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America, 196
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912

Descripçion de las Yndias del Norte